Yorkshire Gardnerian

12/05/2026

Since our post “Balance not Polarity” we have engaged a few debates around the ideology of polarity in Wicca.
However, the very existence of covens challenges the claim that polarity is one of the defining principles of our Craft. The coven itself is evidence that Wicca has always been more communal and multidimensional than a simple polarity model allows. Our very structure as covens, as opposed to a single male/female couple, demonstrates that the dynamic nature of all coven members is what drives our practice rather than polarity.

08/05/2026

“To keep your balance, you must keep moving”

These attributes from the Charge of the Goddess are sometimes seen as opposites, but for us they are complimentary and to be kept in balance. There is no point doing a ritual without keeping the mysteries in Mirth but also without complimenting that joy and mirth with the right reverence for the Gods.

Wicca needs to keep moving too, it is to be lived and taken forward, it isn’t a fixed gospel to be put on a pedestal. Jean Williams said: “I think it should be regarded as an organic, evolving tradition or set of traditions. You find what you do, and you take it forward in your way”.

04/05/2026

Q***r experience isn’t separate from initiation—it is initiation: transformation, crossing thresholds, shedding old identities, and becoming something truer to oneself.

29/04/2026

To this day, the witches preserve these traditions: the flame upon the altar, and the ritual knife with which the magic circle is drawn. Both may well have their origin in the very dawn of human civilisation.

Gerald Gardner – The meaning of Witchcraft

27/04/2026

Reading a lot of Patricia's work lately, and this is one of our favorite photos of her in later life!

All hail the traveler.

24/04/2026

Where many traditional initiates see the Gods in Polarity, sometimes a small shift can open up a wider viewpoint, such as seeing the Gods in Balance. Not at as opposites, but as part of a wider whole that is not separate. One consciousness in two forms.

BALANCE NOT POLARITY

21/04/2026

Bi-Sexual Gods are mentioned often in the Crowther's book Secrets of Ancient Witchcraft. Patricia in her Sheffield Coven initiated Gay and Bisexual High priests.

“Why does the God of the Witches wear horns?
Horns are also a symbol of the crescent moon, and as witchcraft is a moon cult, they represented the Moon Goddess. The horned man could be a symbolic combination of the God and Goddess. This could be true, as many of the ancient gods were bisexual.”

Pg 193 – Secrets of Ancient Witchcraft by Patricia and Arnold Crowther.

17/04/2026

Inclusive Wicca
We can do better…
But how?
…
Lets find out together over the coming months, as here we explore what it means to be LGBTQIA+ and Gardnerian, with insights from a Gay Gender Q***r High PriestX.

16/04/2026

Nothing beats a good Cuppa after a long ritual.

Eleanor Bone was always a rather straight forward person in her interviews, and here is a prime example:
“After we've performed our rites and ceremonies
we sit around drinking tea or coffee
what could be more respectable.”
Witches P.R.O. – Sunday Telegraph, 1964

13/04/2025